Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Mini Culmination Prep- Day 2

Today Kayla and I played around with a motor. Bert said it would probably be the heaviest thing we would have to launch, so we played around with it. we got it to land in the general vicinity of our launch pad pretty regularly. we had a margin of error of about 2 or 3 inches each way (which should be okay if we make our box big enough on our rover). I measured the weight of the bag, the height from which I dropped it and how far the motor went so that we could come back to it later. Kayla and I are experimenting with the weight of the object (because that makes the needed force on the opposite side of the lever bigger- I think) and the surface area because the air resistance effects how far the piece will go. hopefully we can get enough data about shapes and sizes of objects that we can figure out the different measurements during the mini culmination!

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